HUNTINGTON â Just a dozen years ago, Marshall strength and conditioning coach Ben Ashford had no visions of a career in college athletics.
At 28 years old, Ashford had a business administration degree from Auburn and was a construction project manager in Alabama.
The 2009 housing market crash flipped Ashfordâs world upside down, though.
âWhen the housing market crashed, obviously construction took a huge hit,â Ashford said. âI got laid off and I always say that was God doing for me what I couldnât do for myself because Iâve got too much pride to quit. I didnât have a choice at that point.â
That hasnât kept the current Thundering Herd veterans from looking back on previous seasons, though.
Over the last three years, Marshall was in the thick of the Conference USA title race heading into the final weeks of the season.
And, in all three seasons, they have come up short of hoisting the trophy.
In 2018, a late loss to Southern Miss sealed the Herdâs fate as Middle Tennessee won the East Division.
In 2019, the Herd did the hard part by defeating Florida Atlantic on the road, but fell to Charlotte in the rain to lose control of the East Division as the Owls took the C-USA crown.
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Prairie View A&M Men, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Women Capture the 34th PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship Titles
Published on for final results from the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship.
Prairie View A&M University golf coach Kevin Jennings has an expansive history with what is now the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship. He played in the event when it was the National Minority College Championship while he still was a high school student, competed as a college player and coached Talladega College to a title in what was then the NAIA Division for smaller schools.
Never before had he won the Men’s Division 1 title at PGA WORKS, however. Until Wednesday. On a windy and difficult day on one of the toughest, most historic tracks on the PGA TOUR – the daunting Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass – Jenning’s Panthers came from behind, first catching Howard University and then holding off hard-charging Alabama State to capture the title. Prairie View, three-time champions of
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